It’s annoying because there’s an EL stop on our corner. With an elevator. But I’ll get myself the few blocks away to take the bus even though it takes longer. The EL is only for a last minute emergency/running super late for an appointment. I’m not taking any chances these days.

I’m pretty sure it’ll end up being light rail

Interesting. I also moved here the same month and I’ve had the opposite experience. That’s awesome yours is better though!

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Your nuanced point is not the same thing as the person I replied to was saying. They were parroting the extremely typical suburbanite-esque brand of complaining about the city, that is why I said what I did. I don't disagree that the PPD and the PPA do fuck all.

I made a report of an abandoned car a few weeks ago and they still haven’t picked it up

i just had a vision of boneless chicken wings inside a cheesesteak. Kinda curious now......

I think it’s more likely the Fed’s told SEPTA they would support one but not both of these projects because it doesn’t make sense to do both. Who’s gonna take the KOP rail and transfer at 69th St when you could just take a one-seat ride into center city from Phoenixville or Valley Forge? Ideally they’d find a way to have this serve KOP properly, that’s the most sensible thing IMO.

I did not miss it. The jingle can go fuck itself.

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The cheaper part is a bit of a stretch. It's cheap sure but not by much. Good luck finding more bus operators. Metro skips all of those problems of traffic and waiting at traffic lights. The Boulevard will have buses on them regardless if the the subway is built. I very much disagree with this. A bus can move 60-80 people on a long bus while a metro can move 300+ plus.

It a little bit matters what the cause is so that you can find a way to make things more efficient

By all means a great development. Even the RCO (CCRA) is on board:

>The agreement with CCRA included tweaks to the design, planting of mature street trees, and promises of planters around the new CVS entryway.

>CCRA also asked Goodman Properties to attempt to improve traffic flow. Currently, 19th Street is often congested by trucks delivering bulk goods to CVS. The developer has agreed to limit the size of trucks allowed to make deliveries on 19th and to provide a space in the underground parking garage for those deliveries.

It's crazy how all the RCO is asking for is to do things the city government should be doing but won't. Trees? Can't have those, cost too much to maintain and you'd have to lose some parking if you want to fit them into CC... Loading zones? Can't have those, need to preserve the parking...

& it's not even in stock.

https://germantowninfohub.org/who-is-behind-the-mysterious-orange-trash-signs-around-the-neighborhood/

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Nobody tell this guy the rental vacancy rate in the city is still ~2.6% even with the insane amount of rental development going on.

“Tons” of vacant units just isn’t the case. Your point about diminishing middle income housing is absolutely true but this is a luxury apartment building essentially in Rittenhouse so not sure what anyone thought would be going there.

my brother lives in Boston, I live in Philly.

I think so, even if not, we're the top two cities that don't deal with bullshit from outsiders.

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It does not matter what the cause is, buses are too slow.

A great thing the city did was make Chestnut a bus-delivery avenue in CC. Traffic flowed. Buses were on time.

The fantasyland where one day cars will be smote from the Earth is never happening. You either make byways that are buses only, find a way to make light rail applicable in urban areas or drive a car.

I make 100,000/year and feel like im being priced out. I wish I could afford to buy in the city

>It won't even be that expensive to get up and running either especially since it would be an extension of the BSL.

Just a few billion

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